veer
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General Australian, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /vɪə/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /vɪ(ə)ɹ/
- Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from Middle Dutch vieren (“to slacken”).
Verb[edit]
veer (third-person singular simple present veers, present participle veering, simple past and past participle veered)
- (obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 5, canto 12:
- As when a skilfull Marriner doth reed / A storme approching, that doth perill threat, / He will not bide the daunger of such dread, / But strikes his sayles, and vereth his mainsheat, / And lends vnto it leaue the emptie ayre to beat.
Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from Middle French virer.
Noun[edit]
veer (plural veers)
- A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.
- 1917, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
- […] there is always a sudden, though small rise in the barometer, and a sudden drop of temperature of several degrees, sometimes as much as ten or fifteen degrees; there is also a sudden veer in the wind direction.
- 1917, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
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Verb[edit]
veer (third-person singular simple present veers, present participle veering, simple past and past participle veered)
- (intransitive) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
- The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.
- 1697, “(please specify the book number)”, in Virgil; John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
- And as he leads, the following navy veers.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace
- An ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about.
- 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times[1]:
- At this time in 2008, even as the global economy veered toward collapse, optimism about Washington ran surprisingly high.
- 2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, pages 38, 39:
- As he neared a bridge over the East Coast Main Line near Great Heck, he lost control. His Land Rover left the carriageway and veered onto the hard shoulder before biting into the grass verge.
[page 39] It ran derailed for about 500 yards before encountering a set of points, which caused it to veer into the path of an Immingham-Ferrybridge coal train, powered by Freightliner 66521 (one of a class of locomotive well-known for being well-built enough to destroy anything that got in its way).
- (intransitive, of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).[1]
- 1966, F. K. Hare, The Restless Atmosphere, 4th edition, Hutchinson University Library
- It is clear that when a front passes the observer, there must be a sudden shift in wind: in the northern hemisphere it will always veer, that is, shift in a clockwise sense.
- 1966, F. K. Hare, The Restless Atmosphere, 4th edition, Hutchinson University Library
- (intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.[1]
- (intransitive, nautical) To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.
- (transitive) To turn.
Antonyms[edit]
- (of the wind, to shift clockwise): back
- (of the wind, to shift aft): haul forward
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Noun[edit]
veer (plural vere)
Danish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
veer
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
A contraction of veder, from Middle Dutch vedere, from Old Dutch fethara, from Proto-West Germanic *feþru, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”). The sense "spring" is derived from the ability of feathers to resume their shape when bent.
Cognate with Low German Fedder, German Feder, West Frisian fear, English feather, Danish fjer, Swedish fjäder.
Noun[edit]
veer f (plural veren, diminutive veertje n)
- a feather, plume
- Synonym: pluim
- a mechanical spring (e.g. metallic helix which resists stress)
- a twisted leaf, notably of a fern
Alternative forms[edit]
- (feather): veder (dated)
Derived terms[edit]
- bladveer
- contourveer
- dekveer
- dinosaurusveer
- donsveer
- drijfveer
- drukveer
- een veer in de reet steken
- ganzenveer
- met andermans veren pronken
- okselveer
- oorveer
- schroefveer
- spiraalveer
- springveer
- staartveer
- trapveer
- trekveer
- veerconstante
- veerkracht
- veermechanisme
- veerstrop
- veerunster
- veerwild
- veren
- verendek
- verenkleed
- vogelveer
- wagenveer
- wangveer
Descendants[edit]
Verb[edit]
veer
Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle Dutch vere, from Old Dutch feri, from Proto-Germanic *farjaną.
Noun[edit]
veer n (plural veren, diminutive veertje n)
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Dutch Low Saxon[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- vaaier (Gronings)
Etymology[edit]
From Low German, from Middle Low German vêr, from Old Saxon fiuwar. Ultimately cognate to German vier.
Numeral[edit]
veer
- four (4)
Estonian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Finnic *veeri.
Noun[edit]
veer (genitive veere, partitive veert)
Declension[edit]
singular | plural | |
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nominative | veer | veered |
accusative | veere | veered |
genitive | veere | veerte |
partitive | veert | veeri |
illative | veerde veeresse |
veertesse veerisse |
inessive | veeres | veertes veeris |
elative | veerest | veertest veerist |
allative | veerele | veertele veerile |
adessive | veerel | veertel veeril |
ablative | veerelt | veertelt veerilt |
translative | veereks | veerteks veeriks |
terminative | veereni | veerteni |
essive | veerena | veertena |
abessive | veereta | veerteta |
comitative | veerega | veertega |
German Low German[edit]
< 3 | 4 | 5 > |
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Cardinal : veer Ordinal : veert | ||
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Low German vêr, from Old Saxon fiuwar. Ultimately cognate to German vier, English four.
Numeral[edit]
veer
- (in some dialects, including Low Prussian and Münsterland) four (4)
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See also[edit]
- Plautdietsch: veea
Jutish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
veer
References[edit]
- “veer” in Anders Bjerrum and Marie Bjerrum (1974), Ordbog over Fjoldemålet, Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag.
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
veer
- Alternative form of firre
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Noun[edit]
veer m
- indefinite plural of ve
Old French[edit]
Verb[edit]
veer
- Alternative form of veoir
Old Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin vidēre, present active infinitive of videō, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know; see”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
veer
- to see
- 13th century, Vindel manuscript, Martín Codax, Ai ondas que eu vim veer (facsimile)
- Ay ondas que eu uin ueer / ſe me ſaberedes dizer / por que tarda meu amigo sẽ mj
- Oh waves that I came to see / say unto me / Why my lover lingers thus away from me?
- Ay ondas que eu uin ueer / ſe me ſaberedes dizer / por que tarda meu amigo sẽ mj
- 13th century, Vindel manuscript, Martín Codax, Ai ondas que eu vim veer (facsimile)
Descendants[edit]
Westrobothnian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse viðra, related to veðr (“weather”).
Verb[edit]
veer
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